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Lawyer for Menzgold Kwame Akuffo has distanced himself from the payment procedure announced by the gold firm Wednesday. Menzgold has announced in its statement that the payment will be done through their lawyer since they do have access to their office premises. “Claims shall be settled in full and shall be subject to an invitation from our legal team; Kwame ...

A group calling itself the Leaders of Gbane for Peace and Development has announced plans to stage a 2-month-long picketing in the Talensi District to demand back a piece of land leased in 2013 to the Shaanxi Mining Ghana Ltd. Hundreds of natives are reportedly warming up to feature in the picketing from January 10, 2020, to March 10, 2020 ...

The Cyber-crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has extended an invitation to the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi over an alleged cybercrime offence. The invitation follows a complaint made to the police by the Jubilee House. A source at the investigative body that confirmed the invitation ...

Roads Minister Amoako Atta has ordered the demolition of a 22-storey structure at the airport residential area following complaints from residents in the community. The angry minister who stormed the property with security personnel Wednesday also ordered the arrest of three foreign nationals who were supervising the project which is just adjacent to the Association International School. “The chief executive ...

Musician and political activist, Kwame Asare Obeng popularly known as Kwame A Plus, has sued the Attorney-General as well as Kroll & Associates over a single-source procurement process superintended by the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo. This comes on the back of a move by the Senior Minister to challenge a $1million surcharge against him by the Auditor[General. The Auditor-General, Daniel ...

Profuse in her thanksgiving, outgoing Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has eulogized the late President Mills who nominated her to the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights based in Ethiopia. In her parting remarks at the Supreme Court in Accra, she called the late President “one of the kindest lecturers” she had ever met. Sophia Akuffo revealed her struggles with ...

Popular candidate for the assembly membership election in the Adukrom Nima Electoral Area in the Ashanti Region, Nana Adabor Ibrahim Isaah Ampim (alias Aponkye) who paraded himself as the winner of the election actually lost miserably. Results show that he came last of the four candidates who contested, managing an insignificant 234 out of a total of 2608 votes cast. ...

The School of Graduate Studies has organized a two-day thesis writing workshop for Graduate Students at the Cedi Conference Centre at the University of Ghana. A total of 150 graduate students participated on the first day, while 250 participated on the second day. In his opening remarks, the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Prof. Kwaku Tano-Debrah, emphasized the ...

A former chief of defence staff under the PNDC, General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah says former president Jerry John Rawlings did not know about the killing of the three High Court judges and the ex-soldier abducted during the era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC). In an interview with Citi TV, the former national security advisor opined that people know the ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) says its current system is outdated and weak hence the request for ¢444,846,663 to compile a new voters’ register before the 2020 general election. EC’s Director of Electoral Services, Dr Serebour Quaicoe during the PM Express show on Tuesday said the Commission is currently facing numerous challenges with the biometric verification system which need to be ...